A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
In theory, wouldn’t people buying weed now buy less alcohol? Otherwise, they’d be high a bigger portion of a given day and not someone I’d like to be around, especially on the road. If my theory is correct, IL pols over-estimated the net revenue increase the state will get in taxes. That’s a common phenomenon in IL.
Now that people are circulating their legal weed receipts across social media, everyone’s commenting on the outrageous selling price of legal pot and the outrageous taxes charged on legal pot.